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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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From Boring to Bravo: How to Revamp Your Employee Newsletter and Keep Your Team Interested

HR Digest

According to a study by the Direct Marketing Association, email newsletters have an average ROI of $38 for every $1 spent. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, regular internal communication is one of the top drivers of employee engagement.

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Recruit Better Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

Marketing leaders are finding it difficult to acquire the right analytical talent. senior marketers believe they have the right talent. And yet analytic skill is a must for effective marketing. In the big data talent wars, most companies feel they’re losing. In the latest CMO Survey, only 3.4% So how do you find those people?

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What Really is The Big Picture of Business

Strategy Driven

It may be: human resources, organizational development, training, technology, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, coaching or financial management. You must have both a Sales Plan and a Marketing Plan as sub-sets of your Strategic Plan. Advertising is a process, part of marketing and a cousin of sales.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business Review

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. ” Of course, this type of real-time, one-to-one marketing is easier said than done.

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